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Bonos Ego writes:
On Jan 26, 9:07*pm, Bonos Ego wrote:
On Jan 26, 8:55*pm, John Hall wrote:



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*Col writes:
I'm wondering about coastal British Columbia, the latitude
equivalent of the UK on the western side of North America.
Oceanic westerly winds yes, but no eqivalent warm current
to the North Altantic Drift. I'm sure this area isignificantly cooler
than the UK.

I thought that they *did* have a warm current there, so perhaps less
powerful than the NAD. Judging by the temperatures I see in the
newspaper each day for Vancouver, the winters in coastal BC don't seem
any colder than ours. In fact I have the impression that if anything
they tend to have less really cold weather than we do, perhaps because
of the blocking effect of the Rockies.

Don't know if this helps?http://www.miracosta.cc.ca.us/home/kmeldahl/
currents/world_circulatio...

The Southern tip of Chile has a prevailing wind that is onshore from
an ocean with a
cold current, but it is at 53° South

Try Punta Arenas http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/SCCI.html

Well spotted. Having looked at your previous link, I can see the cold
current on the map, though judging by how thin the arrow is it seems a
fairly weak affair. Their coldest month is July, with an average max of
4C and an average min of -2C. So colder than the UK, but not
dramatically so.

http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/...nta-arenas.htm

OTOH, South America is too thin that far south to provide its own source
of really cold air from the continental exterior.
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John Hall
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